Mason practiced once again Wednesday with the Flyers’ coaching staff and a handful of players. If he’s called upon to start Friday, he says he’ll be prepared – despite not having started a game since April 12, and not playing a complete game since April 8.

While it’s impossible to perfectly replicate game situations in practice, Mason believes he’ll be sharp enough to play in Game 4 thanks to the work he’s put in since returning from the upper-body injury that kept him out of the lineup for the series’ first two games.

Mason, previously sidelined by an upper-body injury, looked good in limited action on Tuesday, stopping all three shots faced (two of which came on a power play.) That said, it was his first game action in 10 days and it’s still unclear just how game-ready he is, especially for Friday’s crucial tilt — one that Flyers captain Claude Girouxall but guaranteed victory in.

“It could be Ray or Mase, I think we’re pretty confident with how both goalies have been doing for us,” Giroux told CSN Philly. “We’re looking forward to Friday.”

How dare you be compassionate in these message boards?! lol but no, really, I agree. I’m surprised you got all those down votes. I’m a Rangers fan, but that doesn’t mean I want to see the other players get seriously injured. Just because it’s not a broken bone or teeth falling out doesn’t mean it’s not a serious injury.

No expectations? Or no desire? If he plays the Flyers can not only increase their chances to win the game. But perhaps the series thus another dagger to my bracket. I had the Bolts in 6. But Bishop got hurt before I knew to change my set up.

Devils did it in 2012. It involved fake a shot, and as soon as they go down, go around and shoot on goal. After a few of those, they stop falling right away. They get confused guessing and the whole system gets shleved. Then of course there was the Kovy plan, where he would shoot, after it was blocked, he would blast another rebound, then another rebound, until the rags just said “SCREW IT, LET THE GOALIE DO SOME WORK”

It isn’t like emery has been horrible. In fact he completely stole and won game two for them. His stops in the second period were tremendous. The goals scored by the Rangers in game 1 no one could have stopped and last night aside from the stepan goal, the other 3 weren’t awful.

He’s not too bad, your right. But in the playoffs, the “not too bad” goalies are playing golf before it begins. Every player has to turn it up in the postseason. Difference between “playing well” and “playing decent” is losing in 5 as opposed to 4 games.

Emery hasn’t let in any goals via the rebound this series aside from the first one by zuccarello and that was more the D’s fault for not getting him off the puck.
If you think the flyers are down in this series because they have taken dumb penalties then you haven’t been watching. Last night the flyers had plenty of opportunities with the man advantage and only mustered three or four shots.

what i really want to know is, what is going to happen if/when the flyer get knocked out? whether this round or another round. What is PHT going to write about? They will have to give some other teams some coverage, what a disaster. then it will be “what’s next for philly” or ” is giroux solely to blame” “is holmgren on the hot seat?”
it’s very tiring already. I am dragged into this because I am a ranger fan, but enough is enough. How many times can there be an article on the carcillo goal and fan reaction? i only read one, but saw the headlines. Condense all of his interviews into one article and the summary, wow.

billiam55 - Apr 23, 2014 at 7:02 PM

the real flyers are the ones in game 1 and game 3. rangers defense has outplayed the flyers offense.